Time to celebrate the fabulous fathers of fiction.
Maddie’s father is a librarian — a cover for his top secret work as a… librarian? (Okay, he’s in charge of a super-special secret library where he catalogues and decodes magical artifacts.)
Physical store:
Shop 7, Railway Arcade,
255 Dorset Road,
Boronia, Vic, Australia
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Mick Torken runs a cleaning business with his wife, Monica. He’s a steadfast and patient father to Debbie and Danny.
Byron Marlowe, father of Pippa Dracona, moved with his family to Physicas so that his daughter could study mathematics.
Physical store:
Shop 7, Railway Arcade,
255 Dorset Road,
Boronia, Vic, Australia
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Matthew Cuthbert is a gentle, kind-hearted man who quietly supports Anne with unwavering love and patience. Though shy and reserved, he becomes her steady champion, offering her the acceptance and security she had never known before—making him a truly wonderful father figure.
Despite leaving Sara in a bind when he died, Captain Crewe was a loving father who cherished his daughter and nurtured her imagination and kindness. Even in his absence, his affection and the values he instilled in her give Sara the strength to stay hopeful and gracious through hardship.
Elle Carter Neal is the author of the middle-grade chapter book The Convoluted Key, picture book I Own All the Blue, and teen science-fantasy novel Madison Lane and the Wand of Rasputin. She has been telling stories for as long as she can remember, holding childhood slumber-party audiences entranced until the early hours of the morning. Elle decided to be an author the day she discovered that real people wrote books and that writing books was a real job.